Kenshin and Misao's quest to find tofu takes an unexpected turn when they are stranded in an abandoned cabin due to a dangerous thunderstorm. An accident occurs that brings unbelievable results as Misao and her rurouni face off in an intimate battle with

With syncronized
fluidity, the pair lowered her limp body to the floor between them,
situating her so that she sat astride the Battousai's hips while her
back reclined against the firm wall of Kenshin's chest. Misao allowed
her eyes to open for a heartbeat before they fluttered closed as the
sensation of roaming hands and lips assaulted her flesh. Mindlessly
bringing her arms up, Misao wound her fingers into the silky hair of
the man behind her as a moan passed her lips. The delicate brush of
lips against the shell of her ear caused her to shudder and her
heartbeat to increase it's pounding rhythm.

"Misao..."

The
sound of Kenshin's voice moaning her name in such rapture was finally
enough to penetrate Misao's passion fogged mind long enough for
coherant thought to seep in. What was she doing? More importantly,
what was Himura doing? And.. and.. the
Battousai?!

"S-ST-STOP!"

With great effort,
Misao's mind forced her reluctant body to pull up and away from her
two seducers. She sat up quickly, but found herself unable to escape
the warm prison of their arms.

"What... what are you
doing?" She gasped as she found her green eyes caught up in the
lust induced gaze of the legendary manslayer.

His amber orbs
seemed to devour her entirely. Misao nearly jumped out of her skin,
not to mention the arms of both men, as a hand came up and gently
gripped her chin, turning her head to face the man behind her. Soft,
gentle lips covered her own, silencing any further protests that
might have spilled forth as the Battousai leaned in and pressed his
lips behind her ear.

"Just shut up and enjoy it,"
Battousai said as he tweaked one of her nipples, earning himself a
gasp and an open mouth for his counterpart.

Kenshin took full
advantage of the opening, delving his tongue into the moist cavern of
her mouth in order to seduce her own tongue into play. Misao emitted
another low groan as she finally gave into the temptation and fell
into the kiss. He was suddenly overcome with the undeniable urge to
stroke her bare thighs, to make her loose her breath in anticipation.
Smoothing the dark blue uniform off of her elbows, he let it collect
in the small of her back, the ends draping from his thighs. Ever so
gently, nimble fingers--toughened by endless days of scrubbing
laundry--sketched a delightful path down the feather soft skin along
her spine, causing her to squirm against his chest.

Battousai
smirked, his amber gaze glittering with enjoyment as he watched the
pair kiss. Shifting slightly, the hitokiri managed to slide the
bottom half of Misao's ninja uniform from hers. s. He lifted her legs
from their position around his waist and with one swipe, he had the
piece of clothing removed from her body entirely. Misao shifted then,
extracting her legs from the Battousai's hold, and moved into a
kneeling position in which she could continue the passionate kiss
with Kenshin more comfortably. There was a long moment in which the
cool air of the cabin assaulted her naked back, but it was soon
dispelled as she felt Battousai's lean body press tightly ast hst
her. Her passion clouded brain barely registered that his chest was
bare, and for a second she wondered if he was now entirely nude.

Moving aside her long, dark braid of hair, the Battousai's
wet tongue began to trail a path down the nape of her neck and onto
her right shoulder blade. She shuddered then, deciding that if she
and the darker form of the rurouni were devoid of clothes, then it
was onlir tir that the other be free of them too.

With a
pleading whimper, Misao brought her hands down from where they had
been entangled in a river of red silk to the opening of the faded
pink gi in front of her. Slipping one hand inside, she softly
caressed Kenshin's chest, causing him to break the kiss in order to
hiss out the pleasure that her simple touch brought. The gi parted
slowly as she slid it from Kenshin's narrow shoulders, allowing the
material to slip down his arms and join Misao's own ninja outfit at
thier feet.

Misao's free hand then trailed further down until
it reached the tie securing his hakama. With surprisingly little
difficulty at all, Misao's nimble fingers untied the material,
loosening it before dipping her hand inside. Kenshin's cry of
surprise was muffled against her mouth as his eyes widened comically
at her boldness. Pulling back, a look of awe replaced the surprise as
he stared at the smirk she directed at him.

"You're not
getting shy on me now, are you, Himura?" she breathed, even as
she drew nearer again to kiss the rurouni's open mouth.

A
hand, wandering, but with God-like speed, snuck around the slender
waist of the woman between them and snagged onto the top of Kenshin's
already loosened hakama. The rurouni started at the sensation of a
thirnd pnd pulling at his clothing and once again broke the kiss to
meet the Battousai's amused gaze over Misao's shoulder. With dazed
startlement, Kenshin noticed the Battousai's hands, with a touch like
his own, impatiently helping him out of his useless hakama. They both
burned with the impatience as the last article of Kenshin's clothing
was flung aside hapazzardly, and lay forgotten on the
floor.

Battousai broke eye contact first as he bent his head
forward, bringing skilled lto Mto Misao's ear and began to nibble at
the sensitive lobe. The deft hand that had removed Kenshin's hakama
drew back to rest briefly on the taunt stomach of the girl between
them before trailing downward to delve into the juncture of her legs.
Gasping breathlessly, Misao leaned forward, resting her forehead
against Kenshin's shoulder, inadvertantly drawing her ear from
Battousai's attentive mouth.

The action brought the two men
surrounding her closer in proximity and once again amber and amethyst
eyes met and held. The matching hungry desire, love and devotion for
the woman between them was visible in those orbs and as the two
halves of the same soul stared at one another, a new feeling emerged.
Acceptance. The past battles between a warring soul, ended.

The
moment that feeling settled into Kenshin's heart, the rurouni allowed
his inhibitions to finally fly free. With a moan of utter rapture,
brought on by both Misao's small, soft hand working him attentively
below and Battousai's burgeoning lustfilled gaze, Kenshin closed the
scant distance between his lips and the lips of his darker half.
Sealing not only a heated kiss, but a pact of peace between himself
and the Battousai...of what he now was, and what he used to
be.

Kenshin could feel Misao's tongue twirl along the
sensitive flesh where shoulder meets neck even as his own tongue
fought an intimate battle against a rival who knew every move of his
flesh After all, they were the same.

The three moved against
each other sensually, hair sliding casually along naked flesh.
Lowering Misao once again to the cabin floor, Battousai shifted
subtly so that the young ninja girl once more straddled a lap, only
this time, it was Kenshin's. Mouth parting finally from Battousai's,
Kenshin moved his gaze to Misao's ecstacy-filled eyes. He could feel
her moist passage hovering temptingly above his painfully aroused
manhood and he was sorely tempted to grasp her tightly. To thrust
upward with his hips even as his hands brought her down against him.
To seal and bind them together. Forever.

But he knew it
wasn't time yet. It was too soon. Despite the desire and pleasure
scrawled across her face, her eyes still held a hint of uncertainty.
A look that he wanted to see completely banished before he claimed
her.

Misao felt her ability to reason fading, in truth, it was
already gone. There was nothing but but a spectre of doubt and a hint
of modesty that remained, but it wasn't enough to turn her away from
the pleasure she was being brought by the two red heads. Even the
knowledge that it was quite impossible for both Kenshin and
Battousai to be there, in separate bodies mind you, wasn't enough
tuse use Misao to back down.

She attacked Kenshin's lips once
more, her mouth slanting across his in an aggressive act of
possession. She had wished for this, practically dreamed of this
exact thing... well, minus the Battousai's presence... for some time
now. Allowing her own tongue to manipulate his mouth, Misao allowed a
free hand to slip behind her, latching onto the Battousai in rm, rm,
yet gentle, grip. The action caused the hitokiri to smirk even as he
groaned his approval and moved even closer to Misao's warm back.
Using the Battousai's chest as a brace, Misao leaned back slightly,
arching her hips forward in open invitation to Kenshin to take what
he--and she--so obviously wantedKenKenshin's violet eyes
widened as the feast that was Misao's body was literally laid out
before him. An agonizing groan passed his lips as he dove forth, his
face brushing against Misao's smooth stomach. Lips kissing, tongue
tasting, trailing their way down until they reached their final
destination.

Misao's gasp was muffled as the Battousai claimed
her mouth once more, this time from an upside down position, making
the kiss that more incredible due to the fact that he did it so well.
His agile hands slid down from her shoulders to her breasts, his
hands alternating between roughly kneading and gently massaging her
pliant flesh. Down below, Kenshin manuevered himself so that his arms
now wrapped around Misao's thighs from beneath, allowing him to hook
the bend of her knees over his shoulder and to lift her hips higher
to meet his questing lips. Feasting upon the sweetness that was
Misao, Kenshin swept his tongue along the crevice of her weeping sex
before diving inside.

Misao jolted, her hips bucking against
the pleasuring onslaught of Kenshin's mouth, causing her petite body
to be driven back even more firmly against Battousai's chest. The
Battousai's dark chuckle filled Misao's ears, mixing with an erotic
vibration against her back as the action was carried out. Lips and
tongue working at both ends of her body brought Misao to an
unbelievable height of euphoria, causing her eyes to practically roll
back in her head. The moans of all three mingled almost as intimately
as the act they were conducting, the sound filling the room with a
nearly tangilbe atmosphere.

Misao shivered as, once again, the
Battousai's agile hands began to knead the soft flesh of her breasts,
pausing every so often to tweak the sensitive peaks. His lips began
their own quest, down the swan-like curve of the back of her neck,
stopping only long enough to suckle a of of the sweet flesh before
continuing down and over to her left shoulder. Misao shuddered, her
hands buried in Kenshin's thick mass of hair, clutching him to her
even as her thighs tightened slightly as the tension began to build
into an almost unbearable point.

Misao's body began to tense,
alerting both her lovers of her rapidly approaching peak. A smug
smile tugged at the hitokiri's lips as they skimmed over the flesh of
her shoulder. Kenshin, determined to please Misao to the best of his
abilities, merely increased the pace at which his mouth and tongue
worked against her heated core. The pressure built, causing Misao to
buck and arch violently against the two pairs of strong arms
encircling her, subduing her. Her moans escalated into a piercing
shriek of completion when--as a result of her orgasm--she felt the
monsoon engulf her entirely, sweeping her away.

When the final
wave had passed, Misao collapsed into the arms which held her, her
breaths coming in gasps as she tried to overcome the thundering pace
of her heart. She felt herself being sat up, but as she was she was
simply incapable of staying upright. She collapsed against Kenshin,
who had risen up to enfold her in his arms as she settled back into
his lap. Her arms wrapped instinctively around his neck as she buried
her face into his hair. Faintly, she felt a gentle tug at her hair,
followed soonafter by the soft sensation of her unbound hair
caressing her back. She shivered at the delightful feeling and
wondered what the pair had in store for her next.

She felt
herself being lowered slowly back, cradled in the strong arms of the
rurouni holding her. She felt her back meet the clothes-covered floor
of the cabin and her eyes drifted open, finally losing the heaviness
that had developed during the post-coital bliss. She met the
passion-glazed violet eyes which bore down on her in such an intense
look, that she felt as if her breath had been stolen once again.
Breaking her gaze away from the entrancing look, Misao glanced to the
side in time to see the Battousai kneel beside her. A sinful look in
his sweltering eyes gave rise to more of her imagination, almost
speaking aloud the intensifying acts of passion still to come.

Looking back at Kenshin with uncertainty, Misao met with his
assurance as he gave her an encouraging smile accompanied by a slight
nod in the Battousai's direction. Allowing her eyes to slide back to
the Battousai's hardened flesh, Misao licked her lips in
anticipation, somehow knowing what it was that he was silently
requesting of her. With a realization of both men's intentions, they
subconsciously informed her that she wouldn't be having all of the
fun this glorious night had to offer.

Twisting her flexible
form, she lay sprawled on her stomach and crawled forth, her mouth
enveloping the hardness before her as an out-of-character instinct
befell her mind. Battousai's grin cracked at the girl's onslaught of
pleasure. With a grunt from his part she felt him advance down her
throat ecouraged by her licks and the coordinated movements of her
small, moist mouth.

Without noticing, she had suddenly gained
control of his movements, having seated the infamous Battousai
against the hard wood of the wall. So stiffly and rigidly he froze,
countered to it, appearing almost as if he were nailed to its
surface. Kenshin then took over, dominating her hips by sliding her
back beneath himself by a mere tug of his strong fingers. Flipping
her back around to reunite his gaze with her own, he shoved a quick
kiss to her lips. Bedazzled, she could only comply as Kenshin once
again took control.

The look of uncertainty she had so
definitely wbefobefore had completely vanished from the flushed,
emerald green of her eyes. Gazing back at her with the same eagerness
and raw ardor, he was overcome with the need to take her. At this
point, neither of them were sure who had pressed into who, but with a
bubbling sensation in the pit of her stomach, Misao uttered a gasp of
new, unfamiliar responses.

With an evasive, uncatchable
paradise only available to those who have loved--and hated--deeply, a
felicity of deep-rooted old desires erupted between them. Chemistries
boiling to create a new, homogeneous one. Catching one another's
movements, side by side, her vehement cries followed and led his
suppressed moans. Speeding toward the edges of their limits, momentum
caught up, breaking the wall that held Kenshin inside himself. With a
hard thrust, he emptied himself into her, the pair now forged
together as one, forever in each other's debt.

Salty, foaming
brine flowing into the old earth of her mountains and valleys, the
world was drowning as the two dovetailed so unbreakably that all was
lost in such a moment of perfection. In a universe where all time
seems to stop for the tiniest second, the only two beings truly
existing were the heart of the sword and the sheath.

United,
the rhythm of their pounding pulses hammering in their ears now set
as Kenshin's arms, like the pillars of a fortress tumbling to the
ground, gave out from beneath him and he collapsed into the heavenly
form that surrounded what was every part of him.

Heated,
flushed faces caught in the intimate moment, the two bodies mingled,
scent with scent, sweat with sweat, blood with blood.

They
were oblivious to the vigil they had gained, the amber orbs watching
them with knowing, satisfied calm. He merely stared ahead, until
their forms bled together and seemed as one.

Tonight was the
first and the last night he'd be separate, no longer a physical part
of the rurouni. But not for long. It would come together in the end,
and by morning both would understand the Battousai's reason for
appearing.

The two had been in denial, both disregarding
their feelings. With Kenshin assuming he was meant for Kaoru and no
one else, his friends did nothing to help the situation by remaining
unaware of the vacancy he gained at the thought. And as for Misao,
she chose to tell herself that her precious Aoshi-sama needed
nurturing, that he would eventually open up, that her growing
obsession with Kenshin's every word and gesture was nothing more than
a simple infatuation. And both were afraid. Terrified of what could
possibly come from such an impossible relationship. Twelve years, the
presumed incompatibility between them...

Kami seemed not on
their side.

So Battousai was forced to emerge, the unexpected
match-maker releasing the raw emotion they were so steadfast on
holding in.

Yet showing these parts of them was not all he
done. Finally, after a decade of running, of wandering, he had
allowed the rurouni to find a place to call home, with this woman,
with his past, with himself. Acceptance has finally come, linking the
darkness and the light in the deepest caverns of Kenshin's mind
together at long last.

Yes, he had done his job, and there was
nothing more to do.

Kenshin's Dream sequence

A
red sunset stared down at him, the hazy orb infused with molten gold.
Though it resembled the last moments before dusk, it couldn't be.
There was nothing but the fiery sphere, no earth or mass to sleep
behind.

The silence pounding in his ears was a warning for
him to flee. Uncertain, he could only gawk at the thing hovering in
the air. Upon blinking he turned, breaking into a lope to escape its
leer.

Feeling the weight of its stare bear down on his
shoulders, it urged him to stop running... To turn around and gaze
back at it. His desire to do so was great, but he wouldn't allow
himself to give in...

What was this thing?

Biting back
the urge to face it, he trudged forward. An eerie feeling bled up his
toes, up his ankles, past his knees, around his chest and covered his
back, his heart icing over with horrified paranoia.

Someone
touched his shoulder from behind...

But dare he look to
identify it?

Never...

Still he trekked onward as his
feet gradually became heavier, then suddenly were much too massive
for him to lift. His legs frozen on the spot, he could only turn to
watch it, the desire to look overcoming him at last...

A
moment of unclarity was present as he stared back at it, all the
questions he'd ever asked coming back to mock him...

He could
not begin to understand.

Pouring out from the great circle
came black threads, encircling him like needy tentacles until they
surrounded him entirely.

There he sat, unmoving in the black
abyss, darker than a starless night sky. The empty space beneath his
feet filled everything with its darkness, including him. But he felt
at ease with it, hidden from the combusting gaze of the sphere.

But
could he hide from it?

All attempts to do so were futile...
For it lived in him. Always it watched him, judged him, and yet knew
him deeper than anyone ever could...

"Himura."
Called a cold, clear voice. Turning his head reluctantly, he faced
himself.

"What is it you want?" He replied, shaking
with suspicion.

"I want nothing, and this you know."

After a period of contemplation, he muttered.

"How?
Why?"

"We are no longer separate from one another.
We are one in the same."

"Were we not before?"

"You would not allow us to be... For too long you have
tried to push myself and your past away." For his other self's
fear, he spoke calmly, his thoughts collected and ready.

"What
reason have I not to?" Kenshin growled through clenched
teeth.

"Your past has made you. I have made you. We are
one in the same, no matter how much you hate to admit it."

"But
why?"

"I cannot tell you that. It is your task to
find the answer."

"When I wake up... You won't be
here, will you?"

"Yes and no." Battousai
simpered at his question. "I will no longer be outside your
body. We will be the same..."

"How do you
mean?"

"No more nightmares... No more conversations
in your own ... ... No more mixed emotions..." The darker side's
voice trailed off into silence.

A smile spread across
Kenshin's own mouth as well, a beginning to his acceptance and an end
to his rejection of his former life finally coming...

"No
more Battousai..." He finished. The hitokiri and the rurouni
exchanged equal glances of contentment before Kenshin closed his
eyes.

End Dream Sequence

Kenshin felt a
protruding feeling beat down on his closed eyes, urging them open.
They flew shut again as the glowing rays of sun streamed in through a
broken window and onto him and the still sleeping Misao. He buried
his face down into her dark blanket of hair, shielding his gaze from
the bright sun.

He felt her stir, her form twisting before her
groggy voice broke the peaceful silence.

"Kenshin?"
The sound of Misao's sweet voice calling his name in such a way
caused the rurouni's heart to swell even more with emotion.

Liftins
hes head, he covered her lips with his own in a morning kiss,
welcoming her thoughts back to the acts of passion committed hours
before and to the now unbreakable bond forged between them.

"Good
morning..."

Misao melted into the warmth of the strong
arms which held her tight, her mind reflecting on the wonders she'd
experienced whilst in this very same position. After another moment
of sweet revelation, realization of the now absent Battousai hit
her.

Her endearing curiosity caused the content
look on his face to strengthen as he replied. "The Battousai has
gone home, Misao, that he has."

"Home? You mean...
back inside of you?"

Kenshin nodded, "That he has,
and I suspect that we shall not have to worry about the Battousai
emerging ever again, that I do."

A look of warmth and
contentment for the man holding her melted onto her pretty face,
bringing her lips to connect with his once again as he gave her arms
an affectionate squeeze. After a moment, she pulled away, avoiding
his gaze as her own teemed with uncertainty.

"Have we
made a mistake...?"

His eyes, full of thought, warmly
replied, giving her the same answer she had been hoping for.

"I
do not think we have, that I do not... I do not regret a single
moment of it." Knitting his larger fingers into her slender ones
he brought her the back of her hand up to stroke his cheek. "And
you?"

She shook her head softly, murmuring his name under
her breath as she brought her lips to his ear, sweetly whispering.
"Aishiteru, Kenshin."

Pressing his mouth to the
pale, warm flesh of her neck, he repeated back to her the passionate
phrase.

"Aishiteru..."

The End

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